Pentaho 8 reporting for Java developers : create pixel-perfect analytical reports using reporting tools / Francesco Corti.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Corti, Francesco, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Java (Computer program language).
• Business report writing--Data processing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Create reports and solve common report problems with minimal fuss. About This Book Use this unique book to master the basics and advanced features of Pentaho 8 Reporting. A book showing developers and analysts with IT skills how to create and use the best possible reports using the Pentaho platform. Written with a very practical approach: full of tutorials and practical examples (source code included). Who This Book Is For This book is written for two types of professionals and students: Information Technologists with a basic knowledge of Databases and Java Developers with medium seniority. Developers will be interested to discover how to embed reports in a third-party Java application. What You Will Learn The basics of Pentaho Reporting (Designer and SDK) and its initial setup. Develop the most attractive reports on top of a wide range of data sources. Perform detailed customization of layout, parameterization, internationalization, behaviors, and more for your custom reports developed with Pentaho Reporting. Integrate Pentaho reports into third-party Java application with full control over interactions, layout, and behavior in general. Use Pentaho reports in the other components of the Pentaho Suite (BA Platform and PDI). In Detail This hands-on tutorial, filled with exercises and examples, introduces the reader to a variety of concepts within Pentaho Reporting. With screenshots that show you how reports look at design time as well as how they should look when rendered as PDF, Excel, HTML, Text, Rich-Text-File, XML, and CSV, this book also contains complete example source code that you can copy and paste into your environment to get up-and-running quickly. Updated to cover the features of Pentaho 8, this book will teach you everything you need to know to build fast, efficient reports using Pentaho. If your interest lies in the technical details of creating reports and you want to see how to solve common reporting problems with a minimum of fuss, this is the book for you. Style and approach A step-by-step guide covering technical topics relating to environments, best practices, and source code, to enable the reader to assemble the best reports and use them in existing Java applications.

Contents:

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Credits
• About the Author
• About the Reviewers
• www.PacktPub.com
• Customer Feedback
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Introduction to Pentaho Reporting
• Introducing Pentaho Reporting
• Introducing Pentaho Reporting tools
• Types of users and required knowledge
• Technological advantages
• A business friendly open source license
• Typical uses of Pentaho Reporting
• Operational reporting
• Business intelligence reporting
• Financial reporting
• Production reporting
• Pentaho Reporting history
• Feature overview
• An advanced reporting algorithm
• A multitude of available data sources
• A wide variety of output formats
• Pixel accurate rich formatting
• Embedded charts
• Report parameterization
• Formulas and style expressions
• Subreports
• Cross tab reports
• Interactive reporting
• Rich authoring tools
• Reporting server
• Java API for building reports
• Extensibility
• Pentaho reporting website
• Pentaho Reporting architecture
• Reporting Engine's libraries
• Reporting Engine core
• Reporting Engine extensions
• Summary
• Chapter 2: Getting Started with Report Designer
• Prerequisites of your environment
• Setting up the Pentaho Report Designer
• The SamplaData&
• #160
• schema
• Introduction to&
• the user interface
• Menu and toolbar
• Report element palette
• Report canvas tab
• Report explorer
• Element properties
• Messages
• Creating your first report using the wizard
• Introducing&
• the Report Design Wizard
• Defining the look and feel
• Defining the data source and query
• Defining the layout
• Formatting the fields
• Previewing the report
• Saving and opening the report
• Chapter 3: Getting Started with Reporting SDK
• Obtaining&
• the Pentaho Reporting SDK.
• Anatomy of the Pentaho Reporting SDK
• Using the included Eclipse project
• Introducing the included&
• examples
• Creating a&
• web application using Pentaho Reporting and Maven
• Creating a web application in Java
• Creating a Java web application using Apache Maven
• Creating the&
• first page&
• of the&
• Java&
• web application
• Including Pentaho Reporting Engine in a&
• Adding the Pentaho repository
• Adding the Pentaho&
• dependencies
• Showing&
• an existing Pentaho report in a&
• Including an existing Pentaho report
• Including the SampleData schema
• Updating the PentahoServlet
• Previewing the Pentaho report
• Chapter 4: Creating a Report with Report Designer
• Creating a Pentaho report
• Creating&
• a new&
• Pentaho report
• datasource in&
• Pentaho reports
• Adding details to Pentaho reports
• Previewing and saving a&
• Customizing Pentaho reports
• Customizing the font
• Customizing the report header
• Adding&
• the&
• details header and customizing the details
• Customizing the page footer
• Grouping the details
• Adding charts
• Previewing Pentaho&
• reports in different formats
• Train yourself to learn faster
• Chapter 5: Design and Layout in Report Designer
• Report Designer user interface components
• The Structure tab in report explorer
• The report element properties
• Master report and report bands properties
• Common properties
• Size and position properties
• Font, text, and text-spacing properties
• Font properties
• Text properties.
• Text-spacing properties
• Object&
• properties
• Links properties
• Excel properties
• Page-behaviour&
• Padding properties
• Border&
• Common properties in attributes
• Query-metadata properties
• Wizard properties
• HTML&
• Excel properties in attributes
• HTML-events, PDF-events, and&
• Swing-events properties
• HTML-events properties
• Pdf-events&
• Master Report properties
• Text properties
• Page-behaviour properties
• Query properties
• Common properties in the attributes tab
• Advanced properties
• Pentaho properties
• Page Header and Page Footer properties
• Report Header and Report Footer properties
• Group Header and Group Footer properties
• Details body&
• Watermark properties
• Report elements
• Text and text-spacing properties
• Rotation properties
• Object properties
• Page-behavior properties
• Padding and border properties
• HTML-event, pdf-events, Swing-events properties
• Label and message
• Fields and resources
• Image and image-field
• Vertical-line, horizontal-line, rectangle, and eclipse
• Survey-scale
• Chart
• Simple-barcodes
• Bar-sparkline, line-sparkline, and&
• pie-sparkline
• Band
• Sub-report
• Table-of-content and index
• Hiding and showing bands
• Visual layout in Report Designer
• The grid
• Guide lines
• Additional visual indicators.
• Moving and aligning single elements
• Aligning groups of elements
• Miscellaneous layout capabilities
• Pentaho Report Designer shortcut keys
• Considerations for different output formats
• Cell output
• Paging
• Limits to rich graphics and charts
• Chapter 6: Configuring JDBC and Other Data Sources
• Introducing data sources
• Datasets&
• in report explorer
• The JDBC data source
• Adding or editing a JDBC connection
• About the JNDI access
• Adding or editing a query
• The metadata data source
• The MongoDB data source
• The Pentaho Data Integration data source
• The OLAP data source
• Pentaho analysis
• OLAP4J
• Pentaho analysis - custom
• The XML data source
• The table data source
• The advanced data source
• Scriptable
• External
• Sequence generator
• OpenERP data access
• The Pentaho community data access data source
• Chapter 7: Including Graphics and Charts in Reports
• Including static images&
• in reports
• Including dynamic&
• images&
• Including charts&
• Types of&
• datasets
• Category dataset
• Series&
• Group&
• Optional&
• Pie dataset
• XY series and XYZ series dataset
• Time series dataset
• Thermometer dataset
• Style and layout common properties
• Required properties
• Title properties
• General properties
• Legend&
• Scripting&
• Bar&
• chart
• Bar chart example
• Line chart
• Line chart example
• Area chart
• Area&
• chart example
• Pie chart
• Pie&
• Multipie chart
• Multipie&
• Bar line chart
• Bar line&
• #160.
• chart example
• Ring chart
• Ring&
• Bubble chart
• Bubble&
• Scatter plot chart
• Scatter plot&
• XY bar chart,&
• XY line chart, and&
• XY&
• area chart
• XY bar&
• chart, XY line chart, and XY area chart examples
• Extended XY line chart
• Extended XY line chart example
• Waterfall chart
• Waterfall chart example
• Radar chart
• Radar&
• XY area line chart
• Thermometer chart
• Thermometer&
• Including sparkline charts in reports
• Chapter 8: Parameterization, Functions, Variables, and Formulas
• Report&
• parameterization
• Using report parameters
• The available report parameter types
• Creating parameters
• Creating a report using parameters
• Functions and expressions
• Functions and expressions in Report Designer
• Creating and using&
• functions
• Example of function
• Creating and using expressions
• Example of expression
• The available function&
• types
• Common functions
• Report functions
• Summary functions
• Running functions
• Advanced functions
• Chart data and value data functions
• Image functions
• Script functions
• Table of contents&
• Environment variables
• Working with formulas
• formula
• The&
• formula syntax
• Formula datatypes
• Formula operators
• The available formula&
• categories
• Date or time formulas
• Database formulas
• Information&
• formulas
• Logical formulas
• Mathematical formulas
• Rounding formulas
• Text formulas
• User-defined formulas
• Chapter 9: Internationalization and Localization.
• Internationalization and localization.

Notes:

• Includes index.
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 17, 2017).

OCLC:

1005351397